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"You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care."

Care, Contempt, Honor

"I don't persuade to suicide."

Society, Suicide

"I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months."

Food, Care, Clothes, Months

"I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?"

People, Right, Sound

"Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares."

People, Waiting

"What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk."

Friendship, People, Friends, Talk

"I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate."

Death, Will

"Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?"

Society, Prison

"I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court."

Society, Court, Will

"My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion."

Religion,

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"A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Society, Mankind, Needs, Self, State

"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Society, Intelligence, Knowledge, Fact, Mind

"Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Society, Blush, Man, Old, Pride

"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Society, Government, Press, Will

"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Society, Country

"I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit."

Fran Lebowitz, American Journalist

Society, People, Heart, Courtesy, Old

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Society, Old

"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included."

Karl Marx, German Philosopher

Society, History, Sex, Progress, Ugly

"He is now rising from affluence to poverty."

Mark Twain, American Author

Society, Now, Poverty

"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Society, Sympathy, Feelings, Thoughts, Habits